As has been our American tradition since our Founding Fathers first gripped the Constitution in their cold robot hands, today saw another ceremonial addition to the hallowed Hall of Presidents—a simulacrum of slack, rubbery flesh spouting empty platitudes, a puppet installed at the behest of giant corporations who…

It is a minor footnote in the story of Jane Austen that, despite writing so intimately and incisively about courtship and matters of the heart, she never married herself. And yet a recent Washington Post article, strangely scheduled to coincide with her birthday (December 16) and also the 200th anniversary of her…

At the end of last week, Taylor Swift launched The Swift Life, a social media app meant to act as an oasis from the tumultuous, politics-laden world of the internet, a place where fans of Taylor Swift could peaceably discuss and fawn over their favorite thing: Taylor Swift. Unfortunately, as The Daily Beastreports, …

Tenacious D, the weirdo rock act Jack Black fronts alongside Kyle Gass, hasn’t put out an album since 2012's Rize of the Fenix. Well, that might be because he’s found a replacement for Gass in Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle co-star Nick Jonas. Despite the action comedy having posited Guns ‘N Roses’ “Welcome to the…

Busting through the wall of the current cultural moment like a Kool-Aid man of male entitlement, Matt Damon has arrived to ruin the Downsizing press tour with some flaming-hot takes on sexual misconduct. “But why would a man who not only worked with an accused serial rapist, but has been accused of helping kill a 2004…

As promised by yesterday’s trailer for the trailer, this morning Warner Bros. released the first official trailer for the upcoming all-female (well, mostly female—hi, James Corden) heist flick Ocean’s 8. The trailer opens with Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) at her parole hearing, saying that, if given another chance at…

Everybody knows that watching a movie in 2017 is as easy as renting something on Amazon, logging onto Netflix only to realize that there’s nothing good, or pulling the dust-covered DVD box out of your storage unit, but the Alamo Drafthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, is planning to launch a revolutionary new movie…

According to Variety, BBC America has decided to cancel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, making the weirdo detective show’s recent season finale into a series finale. In a statement, BBC America said that it is “beyond proud” of the “brilliant original series,” and offered a word of thanks to stars Samuel…

Back in August, we reported that NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt had suggested that he was totally on board with resurrecting virtually every hit show the network has ever had, an idea that’s about as NBC as ideas get. Now, TVLine is reporting that the network is actually pretty serious about that, and it…

With Issa Rae’s Insecure set to return for a third season on HBO next year, the premium cable network has decided to pick up two new projects that she’ll be executive producing. That comes from Deadline, which says the two shows are a half-hour comedy called Him Or Her and an hourlong drama called Sweet Life. The…

Time travel is constantly causing headaches in superhero comics, and Jonathan “Superboy” Kent is about to discover this for himself in “Super Sons Of Tomorrow,” a small crossover spread across Superman, Super Sons, and Teen Titans. Superboy is being hunted down by the Batman of Tomorrow, a future version of Tim Drake…

Showtime has just dropped a trailer for Stephen Colbert’s Donald Trump show Our Cartoon President, and while it’s brief, it does give a fairly clear indication of the tone the show is going to take. Specifically, it has a very orange Trump struggling to perform the simplest level of physical activity, so it seems like …

Before getting to the galaxy-shaking box-office results everyone saw coming from several lightyears away, let’s hear it for the counterprogramming that almost could. Ferdinand, a new animated movie based on the beloved children’s book, opened wide this weekend against a certain eighth chapter in a certain popular…